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pond, pool, standing (water)

“Ponds” From Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(confined). Egyptian ponds were pools left by subsidence of the Nile waters (Ex. 7:19¹⁹And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone. (Exodus 7:19)). Fishponds (Isa. 19:10¹⁰And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish. (Isaiah 19:10)).

“Pool” From Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(hole). Artificial reservoir for water. Very necessary in the East and sometimes built very elaborately and expensively (Eccl. 2:6⁶I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees: (Ecclesiastes 2:6); Isa. 42:15¹⁵I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. (Isaiah 42:15)).

“Ponds” From Concise Bible Dictionary:

Pools, left by the retiring of the river Nile, or formed by artificial means (Ex. 7:19¹⁹And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone. (Exodus 7:19); Ex. 8:5⁵And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt. (Exodus 8:5); Isa. 19:10¹⁰And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish. (Isaiah 19:10)).

“Pools” From Concise Bible Dictionary:

See the various names by which they are called.

Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Number:

98 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Transliteration:

’agam

Phonic:

ag-am’

Meaning:

from an unused root (meaning to collect as water); a marsh; hence a rush (as growing in swamps); hence a stockade of reeds

KJV Usage:

pond, pool, standing (water)